Dear Client: After a breakout year this past year, in which it grew 563% to 1.3 million cases sold, and put vodka-based hard tea RTDs on the map, Surfside is now making moves to try and own the subsegment it helped create, across the map. Indeed, the brand announced today that it’s expanding distribution to … Continue reading “Surfin’ U.S.A.: Surfside Goes National”
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“Harry, you have been pushing, encouraging, and prodding everyone to raise their prices, saying the market can bear it, and now you are saying it’s the reason sales aren’t as strong as they should be? I don’t get it, which one is it?”
I know, this article has already been published, but I liked it so much that I updated it.
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